USA Today Op ed Making the Case for Abolishing the Constitutional Requirement that the President Must be a "Natural Born" Citizen
I coauthored it with Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy.
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NSA Ruling Reminds Us That Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security Is a Bipartisan Impulse
A federal appeals court concludes that the agency's mass collection of phone records was illegal and probably unconstitutional.
Is the Senate Filibuster a 'Jim Crow Relic' That Should Be Abolished in the Name of Democracy?
Politicians' opinions about the maneuver depend on which party is in power.
Trump's Failed Promise To Stop America's 'Endless Wars'
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
Trump's Bizarre Twitter Attack on Obama-Era Fair Housing Regs Reveals an Administration at War With Itself
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
How Much Is $2.3 Trillion? More Than Even Obama Could Imagine
The CARES Act plunges the nation into a crash course on experimental economics.—and we're the lab rats.
Indian Prime Minister Modi's Useful Idiots in America Should Now Condemn Him
His brutal response to the protests against his anti-Muslim initiative reveal him as a Hindu nationalist, not a reformer.
Trump and Obama Each Break Records on Bad Immigration Policy
Plus: how Hyperloop could reshape the Midwest, crowdfunding social media, the billionaires behind Democratic candidates, and more...
Of All the Things To Impeach a President for, They Chose This?
Working through the lows and highs of the House impeachment inquiry on the Reason Roundtable podcast
Why DACA Is Legal
The Trump administration's justification for rescinding DACA relies heavily on the claim that the program is illegal. But it's not.
Barack Obama Slams Woke Scolds and Hashtag Activism
"This idea of purity and you're never compromised, and you're always politically 'woke,' and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly."
Obama, Trudeau, and the Morality of Electoral Interference
Barack Obama's recent endorsement of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is an example of why not all foreign efforts to influence elections are wrong.
WTF: Lindsey Graham Says Trump Is Repeating Mistakes of an 'Obama-Libertarian Foreign Policy'
Graham criticism of Trump's Syria policy says a lot more about the senator's appetite for endless war than the failures of an imagined non-interventionist foreign policy.
Whether Trump Stays or Goes, We Need To Rein in Presidents and Congress
The impeachment process will be nasty, brutish, and long. It also won't cure the problem of expansive government.
2020 Dems Love Obama, Hate Obama's Policies
For both good and ill, the Democratic field has moved so far to the left that 2012 Obama would have a hard time fitting in.
No Matter Who Wins the Fight Over Trump's School Lunch Reforms, Kids Lose.
School lunches are unlikely to improve, whatever the lawsuit’s outcome.
If You Freak Out Over This Trump Fan Video, You're Playing Into His Hands
For many of the president's biggest supporters, pushing back against "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is their raison d'être.
ProPublica's Dara Lind on Trump's Immigration Raids
ProPublica’s Dara Lind on how the president’s workplace raids affect consumers, employers, and immigrants.
How To Understand Trump's Immigration Raids
ProPublica’s Dara Lind on how the president’s workplace raids affect consumers, employers, and immigrants.
Biden Gets Pummeled for Obama's Ugly Immigration Record
Plus: Tulsi Gabbard is most searched candidate, Kirsten Gillibrand attacks Biden's record on women, and more...
Conservative Twitter Pounces on Obama, Clinton for Expressing Sympathy for 'Easter Worshippers' Killed in Sri Lankan Attacks
Is referring to someone as an "Easter worshipper" really an attempt to minimize their Christian identity?
Standing on the Shoulders of Tyrants
Donald Trump's rhetoric is breathtakingly authoritarian, but so far he's done less than his predecessors to expand executive power.
I'm Betting the 2020 Election Polls Are Junk
It's too early to make predictions based on public opinion surveys.
Mike Lee: 'Every Conceivable Partisan Combination' Has 'Deviated From' Federalism
"This isn't a partisan issue," the Utah senator says. "This is a constitutional issue."
Marco Rubio's Veiled Call for Military Intervention in Venezuela Is a Bad Idea
Like Hillary Clinton, the senator seems to think that Libya is a foreign policy success story.
Go Ahead, President Trump, Please Withdraw from Syria Already!
We shouldn't have been there (or Iraq) in the first place.
When Trump (or Obama) Threatens CEOs, It's the Little Guy Who Loses
Political finger-wags at the boardroom is a good sign that the lowly taxpayer is about to take it in the shorts.
Suspicious Devices Sent to Clintons, Obamas, CNN, Soros Spark Bomb Scares
Another device was reportedly sent to the office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Who's Ready for an Obama Lecture About Trump?: Podcast
Critiquing an ex-president's warnings about anti-media rhetoric, non-voting, and unelected bureaucrats
Obama Endorses Medicare-for-All
While president, Obama was a single-payer critic. Out of office, he thinks it's the wave of the future.
Former President Obama Criticizes Leftist Shutdown Culture
You can't make the world a better place, he says, if you silence "those who aren't like you because they are white or they are male."
The Factual and Rhetorical Silliness of Family Separation Whataboutism
People who supported Trump's policy justified it by falsely claiming that today's critics never cared about Obama's detention facilities.
Donald Trump Is Terrible on Immigration, But Congress Is the True Monster
The president's policy of separating families at the border is wrong, but he's enabled by a lack of legislative action dating back decades.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Did Not Say Schools Should Call ICE on Immigrant Kids
But did you know that Obama's ICE arrested students at bus stops? Our immigration policy is a bipartisan nightmare.
End of Iran Deal Underscores a Weakness of Obama's 'Pen and Phone' Presidency
If your "signature achievements" are done by executive power alone, they might as well be written in pencil.
Video: 'Barack Obama' Calls Trump a 'Total and Complete Dipshit'
Why it's getting harder to tell "fake news" from real news
The Cambridge Analytica Furor: Partisan Hype or Genuine Scandal?
Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign copied tactics from the Obama campaign's playbook. Should that change how we view the supposed Facebook scandal?
Trump's National Guard Deployment to the Border Is Political Theater, Just Like Obama's and Bush's
Border Patrol guards average just two illegal-immigrant apprehensions per month; they don't need reinforcements.
5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off-the-Record MIT Speech
"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us," said the former president. "I know that seems like a low bar."
College Students Trash Obama Quotes They Thought Were From Trump
Partisan politics is awful.
Trump to Rescind Obama E.O. Shutting Down Gitmo That Never Went Anywhere
The prison camp on the island of Cuba will remain open indefinitely.
Immigrants Are Suffering Because Obama Threw Them Under the Bus for Obamacare
His legacy will be grim.
New York's Subway Boondoggles Illustrate How Governments Bungle Infrastructure
Why don't "we" build anything anymore? Because corrupt unions and politicians recognize a guaranteed payday when they see it
